Monumenta - Nominiert: Nero Book Award Debut Fiction Prize, 2024
Verlag | Canongate Books |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 144 |
Format | 13,5 x 20,4 x 2,1 cm |
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Gewicht | 228 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781805301967 |
Bestell-Nr | 80530196UA |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT
'This is a party I'm glad I was invited to' EILEEN MYLES
'Fizzing with ideas' OBSERVER
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Isn't every family home a monument? The provocative debut novel from the award-winning author.
Olga Pavic's house has been requisitioned.
The council will bulldoze it.
Her home will become a monument to a massacre.
But Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror.
Within an atmosphere of razor-sharp political surreality, Lara Haworth spins a tender, magical story of familial love and loss. Via a panoply of perspectives Monumenta compellingly and playfully explores remembrance and how tragedy can be the catalyst for remarkable transformation.
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'Lara Haworth is an important new voice' CLARE POLLARD
'A laser-s harp work of concentrated brilliance' WENDY ERSKINE
'Surreal, quirky, playful and serious' PRISCILLA MORRIS
'A gem of genuine absurdism' HOLLY PESTER
Rezension:
Absurdist and humane, this is a laser-sharp work of concentrated brilliance. Encompassing family and history, politics and love, Monumenta is surprising, original and so assured WENDY ERSKINE